Page Turners is part of my "Literary Luminary" series, featuring insights on writing and publishing straight from the folks who do it for a living. Page Turner Marie Sweetman is an acquisitions editor at Wayne State University Press in Detroit, MI. She acquires scholarly work in the areas of fairy-tale studies and film and media studies.
Read moreStorytellers: Tony Romano
Storyteller Tony Romano is the author of the novels Where My Body Ends and the World Begins (Allium Press) and When the World Was Young (HarperCollins), along with the short story collection If You Eat, You Never Die (HarperCollins).
Read moreBook Review: Where My Body Ends and the World Begins
This moving coming-of-age novel deftly weaves together a pivotal moment in Chicago’s history and one young man’s tentative journey toward self-forgiveness into a powerful exploration of loss, community, and the resilience of the human mind and body.
Read morePage Turners: Kristina DeMichele
Page Turner Kristina DeMichele is an Associate Marketing Manager at America's Test Kitchen, managing the email newsletter program and writing about food every day. You can find her raiding the take-home fridge.
Read moreIt's All Fun and Games
The trick to getting over your fear of the blank page? Stop taking yourself so seriously.
Read moreLiterary Luminaries: Call for Submissions
In an effort to invite and introduce new voices to my blog, I'm kicking off a new series featuring interviews with authors and book-publishing professionals.
Read morePage Turners: Margaret Rosewitz
insights on writing and publishing straight from the folks who do it for a living. Page Turner Margaret Rosewitz is a senior production coordinator at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.
Read moreExposition: How to Avoid the Info Dump
You’ve spent hours building the perfect world for your characters to move through. It’s got every imaginative element you’ve ever wanted, and it’s got the rules and the structure it needs to remain believable in all its fantasy and magic. But now you’re up against another challenge: How do you introduce the audience to your world without overwhelming them with exposition?
Read moreWhat Happened?
It’s the question you should ask yourself about every scene in your novel, and as with so many things in writing (and life), it’s not quite as simple as it sounds.
Read moreBook Review: They Both Die at the End
In an alternate present-day New York City, Mateo and Rufus both receive the same call from Death-Cast in the early morning hours, letting them know they’ll be dead by midnight. The two teens have never met, but when they connect on the Last Friend app, they set out to help each other pack the experiences of a lifetime into one last day and form a deep bond that soon goes beyond friendship.
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